Leaves

 Here is the second leafy card which I said I'd share, this time using a different set of dies although, again, I've used some more of my shaving foam technique card.  Some over stamping onto the card before die cutting the leaves and adding gilding flakes afterwards.  This card actually came about because I'd been playing with different ideas using some shiny gold washi tape which I'd adhered to a strip of white card before embossing which has toned the shine down so that it's not quite so 'in your face'.  I finally decided to trim it on the diagonal, adding the leaves and a simple sentiment for this CAS card.

Sentiment - from a set of peel-off words which came free with a magazine I think
Leaves - Leafy Fragments die set from Sizzix
Embossing Folder - another magazine freebie from some time ago

Way to Grow

 The theme for Allsorts challenge this week is **Way to Grow** or of course there is the **Anything Goes** option.  I've chosen to use a stamp featuring meadow grasses and flowers all of which will be flourishing in this lovely weather.  I was lucky to have won a voucher recently as a challenge prize and this stamp was one of the ones I selected.  Stamped onto a die cut circle of DSP and layered onto some more pieces cut from the same pad so that everything tones nicely. A tiny punched dragonfly was added to the sentiment to echo the one in the stamped image

Flowers - stamp from Crafty Individuals
Papers - from Prima Nature Garden collection (from 2012 probably no longer available)
Sentiment - computer generated cut with die from Stampin' Up (retired)

Fun Card

 I have a fun card to share today which was inspired by one made recently by Chrissie Stokes although I've used my own layout with dies from my collection.  Three different cow head dies were used along with a music die.  The wood effect was achieved by stamping onto a piece of light brown card.  Each cow was cut three times - once in each colour and then layered together - a bit fiddly to do but worth the effort I think.  Sentiment was produced on the computer and die cut using a stitched strip die (extended to fit).

Cows - dies from Gummiapan
Wood grain effect - stamp from Stampin' Up (retired)
Music - unbranded die

Eclipse Technique

 I was inspired to have a go at an eclipse card when reading some recent posts from Lesley who has shown some lovely versions of this technique.  I've used a piece of floral DSP and dies from two different sets to achieve this card.  There are several ways of going about this and plenty of videos on YouTube.  This is probably one of the simpler versions but effective nonetheless.  The eclipsed word was die cut once from DSP and three times from the pale yellow card then stacked together.  I doubled up on the Birthday word using white card.

Happy word - die set from Julie Hickey
Birthday word - die set by Britannia
DSP - from Stampin Up Dainty Delight (possibly retired)